The 2018 Academy Award's Best Picture of the Year and New York Times-bestselling novel The
Shape of Water. From visionary storyteller Guillermo del Toro and celebrated author Daniel
Kraus comes this haunting heartbreaking love story. [A] phenomenally enrapturing and
reverberating work of art in its own right...[that] vividly illuminates the minds of the
characters greatly enhancing our understanding of their temperaments and predicaments and
providing more expansive and involving story lines. -Booklist It is 1962 and Elisa
Esposito-mute her whole life orphaned as a child-is struggling with her humdrum existence as a
janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore's Occam Aerospace Research Center. Were it not
for Zelda a protective coworker and Giles her loving neighbor she doesn't know how she'd
make it through the day. Then one fateful night she sees something she was never meant to see
the Center's most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man captured in the Amazon to be
studied for Cold War advancements. The creature is terrifying but also magnificent capable of
language and of understanding emotions...and Elisa can't keep away. Using sign language the
two learn to communicate. Soon affection turns into love and the creature becomes Elisa's
sole reason to live. But outside forces are pressing in. Richard Strickland the obsessed
soldier who tracked the asset through the Amazon wants nothing more than to dissect it before
the Russians get a chance to steal it. Elisa has no choice but to risk everything to save her
beloved. With the help of Zelda and Giles Elisa hatches a plan to break out the creature. But
Strickland is on to them. And the Russians are indeed coming. Developed from the ground up as
a bold two-tiered release-one story interpreted by two artists in the independent mediums of
literature and film-The Shape of Water is unlike anything you've ever read or seen. Most movie
novelizations do little more than write down what audiences see on the screen. But the novel
that's accompanying Guillermo del Toro's new movie The Shape of Water is no mere adaptation.
Co-author Daniel Kraus' book and the film tell the same story of a mute woman who falls in
love with an imprisoned and equally mute creature in two very different ways. -io9 Praise for
The Shape of Water directed by Guillermo del Toro Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Best
Picture Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Best Director Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for
Music (Original Score) Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Production Design Winner of the
2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Director of a Motion Picture With encouragement from critics
and awards voters discerning viewers should make Fox Searchlight's December release the
season's classiest date movie-for perhaps the greatest of The Shape of Water's many surprises
is how extravagantly romantic it is. -Variety A visually and emotionally ravishing fantasy that
should find a welcome embrace from audiences starved for imaginative escape. -The Hollywood
Reporter Awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 74th Annual Venice International Film
Festival
